California
U.S. securities regulators said Tuesday that they froze the assets of a Costa Mesa investment firm, claiming a convicted felon had overseen its efforts to raise more than $21 million since 2004.
June 11, 2008
Movies
It was three years ago on a transatlantic flight that Robert Altman fell for Raymond Carver.
Sept. 26, 1993
Books
“Every day, every night of our lives, we’re leaving little bits of ourselves, flakes of this and that, behind,” says a vacuum cleaner salesman in Ray Carver’s story, “Collectors.”
Aug. 21, 1988
Mike Kaplan and John Dorr’s illuminating and incisive 90-minute “Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country” (premiering on Bravo tonight at 8) is as much about the director as the making of “Short Cuts,” the film Altman and his co-writer Frank Barhydt wove so effectively from nine of Raymond Carver’s celebrated short stories centering on lives of ordinary desperation.
Jan. 21, 1994
The old lion can still roar.
Oct. 8, 1993
Those who expected director Robert Altman to go mainstream after his success with the anti-Hollywood spoof “The Player” are in for a surprise.
Sept. 2, 1992
The city of Los Angeles has sued the designer and builder of a $5.7-million oceanographic vessel that took five years to complete and only recently began environmental monitoring for the city in Santa Monica Bay.
Aug. 23, 1991
Entertainment & Arts
With this rich 1993 film, as comic as it is unnerving, Robert Altman builds on what has gone before--notably “Nashville” (see this issue’s Four-Star Film review)--yet extends outward to new boundaries.
May 21, 1995
Archives
Orange County’s two representatives at the U.S.
July 22, 1996
World & Nation
Education: Students spend summer working with research tools and methods in laboratories. National Science Foundation set up program.
Aug. 24, 1997